HUMA 5300, a required core course, is an introduction to the interdisciplinary Graduate Program in the Arts and Humanities at the University of Texas at Dallas. It provides an overview and a set of selected, specific explorations into the domains of human studies embraced by the program, as well as an introduction to the organization, requirements, and interdisciplinary goals and foundations of this program. This semester this section of the course takes on--epistemologically, discursively, and metaphorically--the rich notions of "reading" and "writing": as alternative and variable modes of understanding and of creating, and the challenges of expression and communication on either or both sides of that seminal coupling. To ground our collective inquiry, we take the example of "the city," past, present, and future. With that common base, we cross the various disciplines that contribute to the program. Our perspective, however, focuses more on different modes of interdisciplinary inquiry, understanding, and expression than on comparisons and contrasts among traditional disciplines. For this purpose, "the city"--which presses so heavily for so long on the human spirit--is especially fruitful soil for artists, composers, and performers as for feminist scholars, interdisciplinary historians, and students of culture(s).

Requirements:
1. Attendance, preparation, and participation in seminar discussions
2. Presentation of one or more oral reports on either or both required readings or supplementary reading, raising issues and posing discussion questions
3. Analytic review essay due at mid-semester (5 pages)
4. Research proposal including literature search, bibliography, and statement of study problem, questions, and approaches

• William Sharpe and Leonard Wallock, eds., Visions of the Modern City. Johns Hopkins UP, 1987)
• Thomas Bender, Toward an Urban Vision (Kentucky, 1975; Johns Hopkins, 1991)
• William R. Taylor, In Pursuit of Gotham: Culture and Commerce in New York City (Oxford UP, 1992)
• Frederick Engels, The Condition of the Working Class in England [1845] (Academy Chicago ed., 1984)
• Carla Cappetti, Writing Chicago: Modernism, Ethnography, and the Novel (Columbia, 1993)
• Italo Calvino, Invisible Cities (Harcourt Brace, 1974 [1972]), trans. William Weaver
• *Other readings are available on Reserve at McDermott Library [* in syllabus]

• "City and Suburb," special issue, American Quarterly, 37, 3 (Bibliographic Issue, 1985) OR
  Howard Gillette and Zane L. Miller, eds., American Urban History: A Historiographical Review (Greenwood Press, 1987)
• Judith Walkowitz, City of Dreadful Delight: Narratives of Sexual Danger in Late-Victorian London (Univ. of Chicago Press, 1992), chs. 1-2
• Wayne C. Booth, Gregory C. Colomb, and Joseph M. Williams, The Craft of Research (Chicago, 1995)
• Daniel Greenstein, A Historian's Guide to Computing (Oxford, 1994)

Syllabus

• William Sharpe and Leonard Wallock, "From 'Great Town' to 'Nonplace Urban Realm': Reading the Modern City," in Visions of the Modern City, ed. Sharpe and Wallock (Johns Hopkins UP, 1987), 1-50
• See Appendices

• Thomas Bender, Toward an Urban Vision (Kentucky, 1975; Johns Hopkins, 1991)
• *Philip Fisher, "City Matters: City Minds," in The Worlds of Victorian Fiction. Harvard English Studies, 6 (Harvard UP, 1975), 371-389
• Exemplary:
  *John J. McDermott, "Nature Nostalgia and the City: An American Dilemma" in his The Culture of Experience (New York Univ. Press, 1976), 179-231
  *Warren Susman, "The City in American Culture," in his Culture as History (Pantheon, 1984), 237-251
  *Leo Marx, "The Puzzle of Antiurbanism in Classic American Literature," in Cities of the Mind: Images and Themes of the City in the Social Sciences, eds. Lloyd Rodwin and Robert Hollister (Plenum, 1984), 163-180.
• Supplementary:
  James L. Machor, Pastoral Cities: Urban Ideals and the Symbolic Landscape of America (Wisconsin, 1987)
  Rodwin and Hollister, eds., Cities of the Mind
  Sharpe and Wallock, eds., Visions
  Peter Fritzsche, Reading Berlin (Harvard, 1996)
  

• Select at least 5 from:
  *Sam Bass Warner Jr., "Slums and Skyscrapers: Urban Images, Symbols, and Ideology," in Cities of the Mind, ed. Rodwin and Hollister, 181-194
  *Betsy Blackmar, "Re-Walking the Walking City: Housing and Property Relations in New York City, 1780-1840," Radical History Review, 21 (1979), 131-151
  *Penelope J. Corfield, "Walking the City Streets: The Urban Odyssey in Eighteenth-Century England," Journal of Urban History, 16 (1990), 132- 174
  William R. Taylor, In Pursuit of Gotham: Culture and Commerce in New York City (Oxford UP, 1992), chs. 1-2, pps. 1-33, and skim Introduction
  *Michel de Certeau, The Practice of Everyday Life (California, 1984), Ch. VII "Walking in the City," 91-110
  Deborah Epstein Nord, "The Social Explorer as Anthropologist," in Visions, ed. Sharpe and Wallock, 122-134
• Supplementary:
  Roy Rosenzweig and Elizabeth Blackmar, The Park and the People: A History of Central Park (Cornell, 1992)
  John Merriman, The Margins of City Life: Explorations in the French Urban Frontier, 1815-1851 (Oxford, 1991)
  Rosalind Williams, Notes on the Underground (MIT, 1990)
  Vanessa Schwartz, "The Morgue and the Musee Grevin: Understanding the Public Taste for Reality in Fin-de-Siecle Paris," Yale Journal of Criticism, 7 (1994), 151-173
  Elizabeth Wilson, "The Rhetoric of Urban Space," New Left Review, 209 (1995), 146-160

• There are a variety of guidebooks and handbooks on research approaches and methods and reference materials. They date from Henry Graff and Jacques Barzun, The Modern Researcher forward. A new and useful introduction is Wayne C. Booth, Gregory C. Colomb, and Joseph M. Williams, The Craft of Research, ordered as a recommended book for this course. None of them is perfect; many offer various attractions. Familiarize yourself with several by locating and browsing the appropriate sections of the Library and good bookstores. Familiarizing yourself with The University of Chicago Manual of Style or the MLA Handbook will also benefit you.

• Frederick Engels, The Condition of the Working Class in England [1845], 1892 English edition (Academy Chicago ed., 1984), Introduction by E.J. Hobsbawm, and chs. on "The Great Towns" and "The Results."
• *E.J. Hobsbawn, "History and the Dark Satanic Mills," in his Labouring Men (Anchor Books, 1967), 123-140
• *W.O. Henderson and W. Chaloner, "Introduction," to Engels, The Condition (1958 Blackwell and Stanford UP editions), ix-xxix
• *Ira Katznelson, Marxism and the City (Oxford, 1992), ch. 4, 141-156
• *Steven Marcus, "Reading the Illegible," in The Victorian City, ed. H.J. Dyos and Michael Wolff (Routledge, 1973), vol. I: 257-276
• (See also Marcus, "Reading the Illegible: Modern Representations of Urban Experience," in Visions, ed. Sharpe and Wallock, 232-256)
• Supplementary: see also later weeks, and
  Priscilla Parkhurst Ferguson, "Reading City Streets," French Review, 61 (1988), 386-397
  Martha Banta, "The Three New Yorks: Topographical Narratives and Cultural Texts," American Literary History, 7 (1995), 28-54
  Steven Marcus, Manchester, Engels, and the Working Class (Random House, 1974)
  Carl Smith, Urban Disorder and the Shape of Belief: The Great Chicago Fire, the Haymarket Bomb, and the Model Town of Pullman (Chicago, 1995)
  Grady Clay, Close Up: How to Read the American City (Chicago, 1980)
  Kevin Lynch, The Image of the City (MIT, 1960)

• Select at least 5 from:
  *Judith Walkowitz, City of Dreadful Delight: Narratives of Sexual Danger in Late-Victorian London (Univ. of Chicago Press, 1992), Introduction, chs. 1-2
  *Dina Copelman, "The Gendered Metropolis: Fin-de-siecle London," Radical History Review, 60 (1994) 38-56
  *Sarah Deutsch, "Reconceiving the City: Women, Space, and Power in Boston, 1870-1910," Gender and History, 6 (1994), 202-223
  *Susan Porter Benson, "Palace of Consumption and Machine for Selling: The American Department Store, 1850-1940," Radical History Review, 21 (1979), 199-221
  *William Leach, "Transformations in a Culture of Consumption: Women and De- partment Stores, 1890-1925," Journal of American History, 71 (1984), 319-342
  *Hazel V. Carby, "Policing the Black Woman's Body in an Urban Culture," Critical Inquiry 18 (1992), 738-755
• Supplementary:
  Janet Wolff, "The Invisible Flaneuse: Women and the Literature of Modernity," Theory, Culture and Society, 2 (1985), 37-46
  Elizabeth Wilson, "The Invisible Flaneur," New Left Review, no. 191 (1992), 90-110
  -----, The Sphinx in the City: Urban Life, the Control of Disorder, and Women (California 1992)
  Walkowitz, City of Dreadful Delight
  Deborah Nord, Walking the Victorian Streets: Women, Representation, and the City (Cornell, 1995)
  Erika D. Rappaport, "'The Halls of Temptation': Gender, Politics, and the Construction of the Department Store in Late Victorian London," Journal of British Studies, 35 (1996), 58-83
  Mary Ryan, "Gender and Public Access: Women's Politics in Nineteenth-Century America," in Habermas and the Public Sphere, ed. Craig Calhoun (MIT Press, 1992), 259-288, and her Women in Public: Between Banners and Ballots, 1825-1880 (Johns Hopkins, 1990)
  Kathy Peiss, Cheap Amusements: Working Women and Leisure in Turn-of-the- Century New York (Temple UP, 1986)
  Elaine Abelson, When Ladies Go A-Thieving (Oxford, 1989)
  Susan Porter Benson, Counter Culture (Illinois, 1986)
  Susan Merrill Squier, ed., Women Writers and the City: Essays in Feminist Literary Criticism (Tennessee, 1984)
  Valerie Steele, Paris Fashion: A Cultural History (Oxford, 1988)

• Here, too, there are a multitude of books, magazines, guides, and the like. No one claims all our attention. Browse in library and bookstores. A new hopeful sign is the Oxford University Press series, Guides to Computing for the Humanities, of which one, Daniel Greenstein, A Historian's Guide to Computing (1994), has appeared.
• First Assignment: Critical Review Essays due

• Carla Cappetti, Writing Chicago: Modernism, Ethnography, and the Novel (Columbia, 1993)
• Supplementary: see previous weeks, and
  Nord, "Social Explorer," in Visions, ed. Sharpe and Wallock
  Michael Cowan, "Walkers in the Streets: American Writers and the Modern City," Prospects, 6 (1981), 281-311
  M. Wynn Thomas, "Whitman's Tale of Two Cities," American Literary History, 6 1994), 633-657
  Nord, Walking the Victorian Streets: Women, Representation, and the City
  Carl Smith, Chicago and the American Literary Imagination (Chicago, 1984) and his Urban Disorder (Chicago, 1995)
  Farah Jasmine Griffin, "Who Set You Flowin'?" The African American Migration Narrative (Oxford, 1995)
  Charles Scruggs, Sweet Home: Invisible Cities in the Afro-American Novel (Johns Hopkins, 1993)
  Raymond Williams, The Country and the City (Oxford, 1973)
  Hana Wirth-Nesher, City Codes: Reading the Modern Urban Novel (Cambridge, 1996)
  Christopher Prendergast, Paris and the Nineteenth Century (Blackwell, 1992)
  Priscilla Parkhurst Ferguson, Paris as Revolution: Writing the 19th-Century City (California, 1994)
  J. Gerald Kennedy, Imagining Paris: Exile, Writing, and American Identity (Yale, 1993)
  Andrew Lees, The City Perceived (Columbia, 1985)
  Machor, Pastoral Cities

• Italo Calvino, Invisible Cities (Harcourt Brace, 1974 [1972]), trans. William Weaver--read Calvino first
• *Teresa de Lauretis, "Semiotic Models, Invisible Cities," Yale Italian Studies, 2 (1978), 13-37
• *William Gass, "Invisible Cities," Architecture and Literature, via 8 (1986) 137-155
• *Richard Lehan, "Urban Signs and Urban Literature: Literary Form and Historical Process," New Literary History, 18 (1986), 99-113
• *Joseph W. Childers, "Observations and Representation: Mr. Chadwick Writes the Poor," Victorian Studies, 37 (1994), 405-432
• Supplementary: see previous weeks, and
  Peter Preston and Paul Simpson-Houseley, eds., Writing the City: Eden, Babylon, and the New Jerusalem (Routledge, 1994)
  M. Gottdiener and Alexandros Ph. Lagopoulos, eds., The City and and the Sign: An Introduction to Urban Semiotics (Columbia, 1986)
  William Sharpe, Unreal Cities: Urban Figuration in Wordworth, Baudelaire, Whitman, Eliot, and Williams (Johns Hopkins, 1990)
  Wirth-Nesher, City Codes
  Kevin R. McNamara, Urban Verbs: Arts and Discourses of American Cities (Stanford, 1996)
  Philip Collins, "Dickens and the City," 101-121, and
  Paul Anderer, "Tokyo and the . . ." 220-231, in Visions, ed. Sharpe and Wallock
  Squiers, ed., Women Writers
  Richard Maxwell, The Mysteries of Paris and London (Virigina, 1992)
  Adrian Rifkin, Street Noises: Parisian Pleasures, 1900-1940 (Manchester, 1993)

• Richard Haas's urban paintings
• Select from:
  *Donald J. Olsen, "The City as a Work of Art," in The Pursuit of Urban History, ed. Derek Fraser and Anthony Sutcliffe (Edward Arnold, 1983), 264-285
  *Ada Louise Huxtable, "Inventing American Reality," New York Review, 3 Dec. 1992, 24-29
  Taylor, In Pursuit, chs. 1-4
  *Griselda Pollock, "Vicarious Excitements. London: A Pilgrimage by Gustave Dore and Blanchard Jerrold, 1872," New Formations, 2 (1988), 25-50
  *Alexander Gelley, "City Texts: Representation, Semiology, Urbanism," in Politics, Theory, and Contemporary Culture, ed. Mark Poster (Columbia, 1993), 237-260
• if your time allows, read these articles together:
  *Caroline Arscott and Griselda Pollock, "The Partial View: The Visual Representation of the Early Nineteenth-Century Industrial City," in The Culture of Capital: Art, Power and the Nineteenth-Century Middle Class, ed. Janet Wolff and John Seed (Manchester, 1988), 191-233; and
  *Alex Potts, "Picturing the Modern Metropolis: Images of London in the Nineteenth Century," History Workshop, 26 (1988) 28-56]
• Other essays on arts of/in the city are found in:
  "Art and the City: Special Issue," Urban History, 22, 2 (August, 1995)
  H.J. Dyos and Michael Wolff, eds., The Victorian City, 2 vols. (Routledge, 1973)
  Anthony Sutcliffe, ed., Metropolis, 1890-1940 (Chicago, 1984)
  Sharpe and Wallock, ed., Visions
  William R. Taylor, ed., Inventing Times Square (Russell Sage, 1991)
  Leonard Wallock, ed., New York: Culture Capital of the World, 1940-1965 (Rizzoli, 1988)
• Supplementary:
  Donald Olsen, The City as a Work of Art: London, Paris, Vienna (Yale UP, 1986)
  Daniel Bluestone, Constructing Chicago (Yale, 1991)
  Norma Evenson, Paris: A Century of Change, 1878-1978 (Yale, 1979)
  Theda Shapiro, "The Metropolis in the Visual Arts," among other essays in Metropolis, 1890-1940 (Chicago 1984), ed. A. Sutcliffe, 95-128
  Theodore Reff, "Manet and the Paris of Haussmann and Baudelaire," 135-167;
  Michele Hannoosh, "Painters of Modern Life: Baudelaire and the Impressionists," 168-189, in Visions, ed. Sharpe and Wallock
  T.J. Clark, The Painter of Modern Life (Knopf 1984, Princeton, 1986)
  Dallas Museum of Art, The Impressionist and the City (1992)
  Robert Herbert on French Impressionism
  Molly Nesbit, Atget's Seven Albums (Yale, 1992)
  John Tagg, The Burden of Representation (Macmillan, 1988)
  Alan Trachtenberg, Reading American Photographs (Hill & Wang, 1989)
  Maren Stange, Symbols of the Ideal Life: Social Documentary Photography in America, 1890-1950 (Cambridge, 1989)
  Peter Hales, Silver Cities: The Photography of American Urbanization, 1839-1915 (Temple, 1984)
  Wolff and Seed, eds., The Culture of Capital
  Grady Clay, Close Up: How to Read the American City
  Kevin Lynch, The Image of the City
  Kevin McNamara, City Verbs
  Rosalyn Deutsche, "Uneven Development: Public Art in New York City," October, no. 47 (1988), 3-42

• Film: Metropolis (1927)
• *Andreas Huyssen, "The Vamp and the Machine: Technology and Sexuality in Fritz Lang's Metropolis," New German Critique, no. 24-25 (1981-82), 221-237
• *Deborah Epstein Nord, "The City as Theater: From Georgian to Early Victorian London," Victorian Studies, 31 (1988) 159-188
• *John Kasson, "Civility and Rudeness: Urban Etiquette and the Bourgeois Social Order in Nineteenth-Century America," Prospects, 9 (1984), 143-167
• *Susan Davis, "Popular Uses of Space in Philadelphia, 1800-1850," Critical Communications Review, 3 (1983), 3-23
• *David Scobey, "Anatomy of the Promenade: The Politics of Bourgeois Sociability in Nineteenth-Century New York," Social History, 17 (1992), 203-227
• Other essays on arts of/in the city are found in:
  H.J. Dyos and Michael Wolff, eds., The Victorian City, 2 vols. (Routledge, 1973)
  Anthony Sutcliffe, ed., Metropolis, 1890-1940 (Chicago, 1984)
  Sharpe and Wallock, ed., Visions
  William R. Taylor, ed., Inventing Times Square (Russell Sage, 1991)
  Leonard Wallock, ed., New York: Culture Capital of the World, 1940-1965 (Rizzoli, 1988)
• Supplementary:
  Denise Lawrence, "Parades, Politics, and Competing Urban Images," Urban Anthropology, 11 (1982), 155-176
  John Kasson, Rudeness and Civility (Hill & Wang, 1990)
  _____, Amusing the Million (Hill and Wang, 1978)
  Karen Haltunen, Confidence Men, Painted Women (Yale 1982)
  Susan Davis, Parades and Power (Temple, 1986)
  Robert Snyder, The Voice of the City: Vaudeville and Popular Culture in New York, 1880-1930 (Oxford, 1990)
  Lewis Ehrenberg, Steppin' Out (Greenwood, 1981)
  Adrian Rifkin, Streets Noises: Parisien Pleasure, 1900-1940 (Manchester UP, 1995)

• Film(s): The City (1939)
• *John J. McDermott, "Nature Nostalgia and the City: An American Dilemma" in his The Culture of Experience (New York Univ. Press, 1976), 179-231;
  *Warren Susman, "The City in American Culture," in his Culture as History (Pantheon, 1984), 237-251;
  *Anthony Sutcliffe, "The Metropolis in the Cinema," 147-172,
  *David Harold Cox and Michael Naslas, "The Metropolis in Music," 173-190, in Metropolis, ed. Sutcliffe
• Select other essays on arts of/in the city from:
  H.J. Dyos and Michael Wolff, eds., The Victorian City, 2 vols. (Routledge, 1973)
  Anthony Sutcliffe, ed., Metropolis, 1890-1940 (Chicago, 1984)
  Sharpe and Wallock, ed., Visions
  William R. Taylor, ed., Inventing Times Square (Russell Sage, 1991)
  Leonard Wallock, ed., New York: Culture Capital of the World, 1940-1965 (Rizzoli, 1988)
• Supplementary:
  Leonard Levine, Highbrow/Lowbrow: The Emergence of Cultural Hierarchy in America (Harvard, 1988)
  William Leach, Land of Desire: Merchants, Power, and the Rise of a New American Culture (Pantheon, 1993)
  Lary May, Screening Out the Past (Oxford, 1981)
  Charlie Gillett, The Sound of the City: The Rise of Rock and Roll (Pantheon, 1983)
  Elaine Brody, Paris: The Musical Kaleidoscope, 1870-1925 (Braziller, 1987)
  Popular music, movies, good, bad and ugly!

• Film: Style Wars
• As time allows, read:
  *Joan Dideon, "New York: Sentimental Journeys," New York Review, 17 Jan. 1991, 45-56
  *William Gass, "The Face of the City," Harpers, March, 1986, 37-46
  *Rosalyn Deutsche, "Uneven Development: Public Art in New York City," October, no. 47 (1988), 3-42
  *Robin Kelley, "Kickin' Reality, Kickin' Ballistics: 'Gangsta Rap' and Post-industrial Los Angeles," Ch. 8, in Kelley, Race Rebels: Culture, Politics, and the Black Working Class (Free Press, 1994), 183-227, 282-294
  *William Sharpe and Leonard Wallock, "Bold New City or Built-Up 'Burb? Redefining Contemporary Suburbia," with responses and reply, American Quarterly, 46 (1994), 1-61
• Supplementary: among a wide array,
  William J. Mitchell, City of Bits: Space, Place, and the Infobahn (MIT Press, 1995) and the companion WWW site: http://www-mitpress.mit.edu
  Celeste Olalquiaga, Megalopolis: Contemporary Cultural Sensibilities (Minnesota, 1992)
  Delores Hayden, The Power of Place: Urban Landscapes as Public History (MIT Press, 1995)
  Michael Sorkin, ed., Variations on a Theme Park: The New American City and the End of Public Space (Hill & Wang, 1992)
  Sharon Zukin, Landscapes of Power: From Detroit to Disney World (California, 1991)
  _____, The Cultures of Cities (Blackwell, 1995)
  Iain Chambers, Popular Culture: The Metropolitan Experience (Methuen, 1986)
• Research proposals due at class time

For your reference: on the disciplines, subdisciplines, multidisciplines, and interdisciplines of urban history, literature, arts, etc. In addition works cited in required or optional reading on the syllabus:

History:

• "City and Suburb," special issue, American Quarterly, 37, 3 (Bibliographic Issue, 1985), esp. McCarthy, O'Connor, etc.
• *Howard Gillette, Jr., "The City in American Culture," 27-48 [good on literary history];
• *Richard Longstreth, "Architecture in the City," 155-194, in American Urban History: A Historiographical Review, ed. Gillette and Zane L. Miller (Green- wood Press, 1987) [primarily a reprint of American Quarterly]

Literature and the Arts:

• John Z. Guzlowski and Yvonne Shikany Eddy, "Studies of the Modern Novel and the City: A Selected Checklist," Modern Fiction Studies, 24 (1978), 147-153;
• Mary Ann Caws, ed., City Images: Perspectives from Literature, Philosophy, and Film (Gordon and Breach, 1991)
• Michael Cowan, "Walkers in the Streets: American Writers and the Modern City," Prospects, 6 (1981), 281-311
• Anthony Sutcliff, ed., Metropolis, 1890-1940 (Chicago, 1984)
  Andrew Lees, "The Metropolis and the Intellectual," 67-94
  Theda Shapiro, "The Metropolis in the Visual Arts," 95-128
  Peter Keating, "The Metropolis in Literature," 129-146
  Anthony Sutcliffe, "The Metropolis in the Cinema," 147-172
  David Harold Cox and Michael Naslas, "The Metropolis in Music," 173-190
• William Sharpe, Literature, 53-88
• Carol Herselle Krinsky, Architecture, 89-122
• Dore Ashton, Visual Arts, 123-156
• Lynn Garrafola, Dance, 157-188
• Richard Gilman, Theatre, 189-212
• John Rockwell, Music, 213-238
• Alexander Bloom, "Social and Intellectual Life," 273-272 in Leonard Wallock, ed., New York: Culture Capital of the World (Rizzoli, 1988)
• Malcom Bradbury and James McFarlane, eds., Modernism (Penguin, 1976), chapters on the city in literature, arts, etc.
• Susan Squier, "Literature and the City: A Checklist of Relevant Secondary Sources," in Women Writers and the City: Essays in Feminist Literary Criticism, ed. Squier (Tennessee, 1984), 288-294
• See also the course bibliographies on "state of the field" essays and histories of the disciplines

• Thomas Bender and Carl E. Schorske, eds., Budapest and New York. Russell Sage, 1994
• Mary Ann Caws, ed., City Images: Perspectives from Literature, Philosophy, and Film (Gordon and Breach, 1991)
• H.J. Dyos, ed., The Study of Urban History. Edward Arnold, 1968
• Derek Fraser and Anthony Sutcliffe, eds., The Pursuit of Urban History. Edward Arnold, 1983
• Alan J. Kidd and K.W. Roberts, eds., City, Class and Culture: Studies of Social Policy and Cultural Production in Victorian Manchester. Manchester UP, 1985
• John Mollenkopf and Manuel Castells, eds., Dual City: Restructuring New York. Russell Sage, 1991
• Peter Preston and Paul Simpson-Houseley, eds., Writing the City: Eden, Babylon, and the New Jerusalem (Routledge, 1994)
• Lloyd Rodwin and Robert Hollister, eds., Cities of the Mind: Images and Themes of the City in the Social Sciences. Plenum, 1984
• William Sharpe and Leonard Wallock, eds., Visions of the Modern City. Johns Hopkins UP, 1987
• Martin Shefter, ed., Capital of the American Century. Russell Sage, 1993
• Susan Merrill Squier, ed., Women Writers and the City: Essays in Feminist Literary Criticism. Tennessee, 1984
• Anthony Sutcliffe, ed., The Metropolis, 1890-1940. Chicago, 1994.
• William R. Taylor, ed., Inventing Times Square. Russell Sage, 1991
• Leonard Wallock, ed., New York: Culture Capital of the World, 1940-1965. Rizzoli, 1988
• David Ward and Olivier Zunz, eds., The Landscape of Modernity. Russell Sage, 1992
• Janet Wolff and John Seed, eds., The Culture of Capital: Art, Power and the Nineteenth-Century Middle Class. Manchester, 1988
• Zone 1/2. MIT Press, 1986

• "City and Suburb," American Quarterly, 37, 3 (Bibliographic Issue, 1985)
• Howard Gillette, Jr. and Zane L. Miller, eds., American Urbanism: A Historiographical Review. Greenwood, 1987
• Dwight W. Hoover, A Teacher's Guide to American Urban History. Quadrangle, 1971
• Prospects: A Journal of American Culture
• Journal of Urban History
• Urban History, 1993- ; formerly Urban History Yearbook
• Urban History Review (Canada)
• Victorian Studies
• Philip Abrams, "Towns and Economic Growth," in Towns and Cities, ed. Abrams and E.A. Wrigley (Cambridge, 1977), 9-34
• Malcom Bradbury and James McFarlane, eds., Modernism. Penguin, 1976, chapters on the city in literature, arts, etc.
• Kathleen Conzen, "Community Studies, Urban History, and American Local History," in The Past Before Us, ed. Michael Kammen (Cornell, 1980), 270-291.
• Michael Cowan, "Walkers in the Streets: American Writers and the Modern City," Prospects, 6 (1981), 281-311
• H. J. Dyos, ed., The Study of Urban History. Edward Arnold, 1968
• H. J. Dyos and Wolff, eds., The Victorian City, 2 vols. Routledge, 1973
• Michael Ebner, "Urban History: Retrospect and Prospect," Journal of American History, 68 (1981), 69-84
• Derek Fraser and Anthony Sutcliffe, eds., The Pursuit of Urban History. Edward Arnold, 1983
• Michael Frisch, "American Urban History," History and Theory, 18 (1979), 350-377
• John Z. Guzlowski and Yvonne Shikany Eddy, "Studies of the Modern Novel and the City: A Selected Checklist," Modern Fiction Studies, 24 (1978), 147-153
• Oscar Handlin and John Borchard, eds., The Historian and the City. MIT, 1963
• Theodore Hershberg, "The New Urban History," Journal of Urban History, 5 (1978), 3-40
• Dwight Hoover, "The Diverging Paths of American Urban History, American Quarterly, 20 (1968), 296-317
• Michael Jaye and Ann Chalmers Watts, eds., Literature and the Urban Experience, Rutgers, 1981
• Andrea Kornbluh, "City sex: views of American women and urban culture, 1869 to 1890," Urban History Yearbook, 18 (1991), 60-83
• Eric Lampard, "An Urbanizing World," in The Victorian City, ed. H.J. Dyos and Michael Wolff (Routledge, 1973), I: 3-57
• _____, "The Nature of Urbanization," in The Pursuit of Urban History, ed. Derek Fraser and Anthony Sutcliffe (Edward Arnold, 1983), 3-53
• _____, "Urbanization and Social Change," in The Historian and the City, ed. Oscar Handlin and John Borchard (MIT, 1963), 225-247
• Roy Lubove, "The Urbanization Process," Journal of the American Institute of Planners, 33 (1967), 33-39
• Terrence J. McDonald, "The Problem of the Political in Recent American Urban History," Social History, 10 (1985), 323-345
• Raymond Mohl, "New Perspectives on American Urban History," in The Making of Urban America, ed. Mohl (Scholarly Resources, 1988), 293-316
• Susan Squier, "Literature and the City: A Checklist of Relevant Secondary Sources," in Women Writers and the City: Essays in Feminist Literary Criticism, ed. Squier (Tennessee, 1984), 288-294
• Bruce Stave, The Making of Urban History (Sage, 1977)
• Anthony Sutcliff, ed., Metropolis, 1890-1940 (Chicago, 1984):
  Theda Shapiro, "The Metropolis in the Visual Arts," 95-128;
  Peter Keating,"The Metropolis in Literature," 129-146;
  Anthony Sutcliffe, "The Metropolis in the Cinema," 147-172;
  David Harold Cox and Michael Naslas, "The Metropolis in Music," 173-190
• Leonard Wallock, ed., New York: Culture Capital of the World (Rizzoli, 1988)
  William Sharpe, Literature, 53-88
  Carol Herselle Krinsky, Architecture, 89-122
  Dore Ashton, Visual Arts, 123-156
  Lynn Garrafola, Dance 157-188
  Richard Gilman, Theatre, 189-212
  John Rockwell, Music, 213-238
  Alexander Bloom, Social and Intellectual Life, 273-
• William R. Taylor, ed., Inventing Times Square: Commerce and Culture at the Cross Roads of the World (Russell Sage, 1991)

• Joyce Appleby, Lynn Hunt, and Margaret Jacob, Telling the Truth About History
• John Higham, History
• Keith Jenkins, Re-Thinking History
• Hayden White, Tropics of Discourse
• _____, The Content and the Form
• Peter Burke, ed., New Perspectives on Historical Writings
• Donald Kelley, "What is happening to the history of ideas?" Journal of the History of Ideas, 51 (1990) 3-25
• Lynn Hunt, ed., The New Cultural History
• John Toews, "Intellectual History After the Linguistic Turn" American Historical Review, 92 (1987) 979-907, and subsequent comments and responses
• Joan Scott, Gender and the Politics of History
• Elaine Showalter, ed., The new feminist criticism
• Jonathan Culler, On Deconstruction
• Raman Selden and Peter Widdowson, Contemporary Literary Theory
• Terry Eagleton, Literary Theory: An Introduction among his many works
• Robert Scholes, Protocols of Reading
• R. Con Davis and R. Schliefer, eds., Contemporary Literary Criticism, among a great many anthologies on literary critical approaches, some of them published by the MLA
• Charles Bernheimer, ed., Comparative Literature in the Age of Multiculturalism
• Norman Bryson, Michael Ann Holly, and Keith Moxie, eds., Visual Culture
• W.J.T. Mitchell, Picture Theory
• _____, ed., The Language of Images
• Norman Bryson, Vision and Painting
• Michael Baxandall, Patterns of Intention
• Janet Wolff, Aesthetics and the Sociology of Art
• Linda Nochlin, The Politics of Vision
• Thalia Gouma-Peterson and Patricia Mathews, "The feminist critique of art history," Art Bulletin, 69 (1987) 326-357
• Victor Burgin, The End of Art Theory
• John Tagg, The Burden of Representation
• Norma Broude and Mary Garraard, eds., The Expanding Discourse: Feminism and Art History
• Articles and discussions in such journals of Critical Inquiry, Art History, College Art, Representations

• Anthony Grafton and Lisa Jardine, From humanism to the humanities (Harvard, 1986)
• Ellen Davidow-Messer, David R. Shumway, and David J. Sylvan, eds., Knowledges: Historical and critical studies in disciplinarity (Univ. of Virginia Press, 1993)
• Alexandra Oleson and John Voss, eds., The Organization of Knowledge in Modern America (Johns Hopkins University Press, 1979), esp.:
  John Higham, "The Matrix of Specialization," 3-18;
  Laurence Veysey, "The Plural Organized Worlds of the Humanities," 51-106;
  Edward Shils, "The Order of Learning," 19-50
• South Atlantic Quarterly, 89, 1 (Winter, 1990): Bruce Kuklick, "The Emergence of the Humanities," 195-206
• "Specialization, Departmentalization, and the Humanities," ACLS Newsletter, 36 (Summer-Fall, 1985), 1-31
• Laurence Veysey, The Emergence of the American University (Chicago, 1965)
• Gerald Graff, Professing Literature (Chicago, 1987)
• Roger Geiger, To Advance Knowledge: The Growth of American Research Universities (Oxford, 1986)
• Thomas Haskell, The Emergence of Professional Social Science (Illinois, 1977)
• Frederick Rudolph, The American College and University (Vintage, 1962)
• _____, Curriculum (Jossey-Bass for the Carnegie Foundation, 1977)
• Lawrence Levine, The Opening of the American Mind: Canons, Culture, and History (Beacon, 1996)